Kind words cost you nothing but are sometimes worth more than a million dollars.

Many sisters complain that people don't want to marry them unless they stop wearing hijab. No man is worth your hijab, and a real man wouldn't request you to take it off in the first place.

The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.

Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others.

When Allah loves you, He places the love of you in the hearts of the people whose love is worth having.

When you forget that you need Allah, He puts you in a situation that causes you to call upon him. And that's for your own good.

What you see in other people is a reflection of yourself. A person of goodness sees goodness in others and a person of evil sees evil in others.

Wake up knowing that Allah is greater than any obstacle you may face today.

Sometimes you don't realize how special something is until you lose it. Thats how I feel about Ramadan every year.

When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.

Your true friends dont shy away from keeping you in check because your wellbeing is more important to them than even your friendship and they'd rather risk offending you than watch you harm yourself.

O world, that's you!You are but a widened place in the riverWhere Life looks down and we rejoice for herMirrored in us, and so we dreamAnd turn away

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.excerpt from: freefalling

Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.

Be an artist in everything you do.

I respect Everest very much.

Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went on around me.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

Needless to say, you've got to have someone who can speak for you.

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted.